Posted on 07/12/2010 1:26:25 PM PDT by conimbricenses
The man shot by police outside a Summerlin Costco store on Saturday was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a master's degree from Duke University, friends said.
Army veteran Erik Scott, 39, was at the store near Charleston Boulevard and the Las Vegas Beltway with his girlfriend before three officers fatally shot him in a confrontation.
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Armed civilians also know they will be held responsible for their actions, and cops know that they won’t.
Prayers up for your cousin and his family and friends, conimbricenses.
My hometown has one such memorial on the city hall lawn. On it are the names of two cops who died back in the 20's when the black people they were beating for becoming too "uppity" tried to exercise a little self defense.
The only facts we will get on this will be the CCTV footage and the eyewitness accounts from bystanders and cops. After that, we have to make our own best judgment. If you want immutable facts, you will never get them, therefore you can never make a decision, so why comment at all?
Maybe the cops mistook their guns for Tazers and..
I do not find anything suggesting that the store was posted.
I’m all about getting to the bottom of this one. It’s simply becoming quickly apparent that there are two narratives of the story: the cops’ version and the version of everyone else. Perhaps the video will show more, but as of right now everything we know doesn’t speak well for the cops.
Nonsense. It is quite easy to accidently flash a concealed gun in a store. It has not happened to me yet but IWB with an untucked shirt (living in a hot state) then it is not all that hard. Any gun easily accessable easy not that hard to show by accident.
Not that it matters in this case really. Nevada is also an open carry state.
You are fool and give a bad name to law abiding citizens and provide fuel for the Statists to ban all handguns. Pardon me for being direct.
Or just follow the guy home from work and call 911 to report that he is on PCP and waving a pistol at fellow drivers. The cops will do the rest.
Yep, I'm going to hold back until I see some real evidence on this one.
I was going to post this story but thought better of it....last time I posted a story regarding something similar I was attacked every which way you can think of.
No matter what opinion you have you're either a boot licker or a jack boot thug supporter, I call them as I see them and support who I think is in the right.
But most time's you can't win here and it's not worth the time to debate it....not to mention the blood pressure elevation.
We need fewer cops on taxpayer dole and more citizens carrying.
Amen. There are about a million people employed in the United States in some sort of law enforcement capacity. Most of those jobs have extremely cushy salaries ($40-80K) relative to their minimum job qualifications (nothing more than a GED for entry level), and their pension plans are absurd - as in retire at 45-50 with full salary for a lifetime.
With those considerations, we shouldn't be surprised at the kind of cops we get. Take a guy who's qualified to flip burgers and offer him a mid-level corporate management salary and you get what should be expected - that's essentially what constitutes our police force these days.
What are your credentials ?
Forget teh witnesses and police statements both. Costco has security cameras.
If the tapes turn up missing or some glitch is cited, then there is police corruption.
If the tapes make it to trial or into the public domain, then trust what the tapes show as being the real story.
Costco bears part of the lawsuit settlement, but I’m honestly more concerned about the liberal employee (who should be personally liable on a civil and criminal basis) and the cops who pulled the trigger.
They’re no business of yours, is what they are.
Damn, I didn’t know we needed credentials to post here!
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